M5054

Course Title: Designing a High Availability Messaging Solution

Using Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

Course Code: M5054 Version: ALevel: 300Duration: 2 Days

Course Overview

The Designing a High Availability Messaging Solution Using Microsoft Exchange Server 2007M5054 instructor-led training course has been designed to teach messaging engineers how to design a high availability messaging solution using Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Candidates will create a high availability design to meet service level agreement requirements and learn strategies for gaining approval for the design. They will learn how to identify risks and create mitigation plans to maintain the business continuity of the messaging system. Candidates will also learn how to design a backup strategy, disaster recovery procedures, and test plans for those procedures.

Target Audience

Candidates who should consider attending the M5054 Microsoft training course are those with 3 or more years` experience working with previous versions of Exchange Server and experience implementing Exchange Server 2007.

Course Objectives

On successfully completing the M5054 course candidates will be able to:

Ensure recovery readiness of a high availability messaging environment

Course Prerequisites

Candidates attending the M5054 Microsoft training course are required to have previously attended and completed the M5053: Designing a Messaging Infrastructure Using Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 course and should have a basic understanding of high availability concepts such as: how clustering works at the operating system level (Windows clustering) and how network load balancing works.

Candidates should have a basic familiarity with deriving business requirements such as: gathering business requirements and understanding that business needs come from a variety of sources (direct personnel needs, regulatory, business operations requirements). Candidates should also have a basic understanding of backup systems such as: types of backups (disk to tape, disk to disk, Storage Area Networks (SAN) snapshot, imaging, etc.), backup rotation schemes, and offsite backup procedures.

Testing and Certification

Course Content

Module 1: Foundational High Availability Concepts for Messaging

In this module candidates will learn about the concept of service level management and how it relates the maintenance of Exchange Server 2007.
The module also provides an overview of the high availability technologies for various network and data centre components.

Module 4: Designing the Messaging Portion of a Business Continuity Plan

In this module candidates will learn how to design the messaging portion of a business continuity plan. The module also provides information on how
to identify threats to the messaging organisation and mitigating those threats is covered.

Lessons:

Overview of Business Continuity Planning

Identifying Threats to the Messaging Organisation

Mitigating Threats to the Messaging Organisation

Designing the Business Continuity Plan

Lab: Designing the Messaging Portion of a Business Continuity Plan

Identifying Risks to a Messaging Environment

Discussion: Mitigating Risks to a Messaging Environment

After completing this module, candidates will be able to:

Describe business continuity planning

Identify threats to the messaging organisation

Mitigate threats to the messaging organisation

Design the business continuity plan

Module 5: Designing Backup for a High Availability Messaging Environment

In this module candidates will learn how to identify the backup requirements and design the backup procedures for a high availability messaging environment.

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